Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy (Civil War America) by Earl J. HessEnglish | September 2nd, 2016 | ASIN: B01EGKZSDI, ISBN: 1469628759 | 368 pages | EPUB | 4.25 MBAs a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy.